Woman jailed for spiking breastmilk to poison toddler

A mother of eight has been jailed for seven years and two months for poisoning her one-year-old daughter by putting a powerful painkiller in her breastmilk. The toddler was hospitalised several times, and it eventually emerged Rose Jones, 30, had repeatedly put high doses of tramadol into her milk. Sentencing Jones at Plymouth crown court, Judge Ian Lawrie, QC, said Jones’ cruelty was worse than violent child abuse. When it was discovered, Jones of Plymouth, Devon, tried to blame the child’s father.